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in 1957. He was survived by his wife and two sons—Evarts A. Graham Jr. (1921–1996), an editor, and David
Tredway Graham (1918–1999), an internist. Evarts Graham's seminal lung cancer surgery patient in 1933, Gilmore, also outlived him by six years, dying in 1963 at the age of 78.
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126:Helen Tredway, Ph.D.
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